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Mar 3

Still Alive. Kinda.

You may have noticed that I’ve answered a few questions today. Something that I said I was going to do quite a while ago. Well, I certainly thought I was going to.

The first two months of 2014 had other ideas. Very shortly after I started feeling better in December, I got worse again. I started having a great deal of back pain, which brought along depression and sleep deprivation. It was a pretty vicious cycle. The back pain causes both more depression and more sleep deprivation, the sleep deprivation caused more back pain, etc. etc.

Last month the sleep deprivation got really bad. We got a new pillow for me and that aspect, at least, is mostly sorted. I’m almost feeling human, but I’m still dealing with a lot of pain in my back and neck. We’ve tried every trick in the book, just about, and it won’t go away. I’m hoping my visit with the chiropractor tomorrow helps.

I will be answering questions as I can, but I don’t think it’s fair to promise any sort of consistency right now. I just have no idea what the year is going to throw at me next. It might be I’ll be fine, but there’s just no way of knowing. But AH is not dead. I know a lot of blogs of this sort have gone away or gotten very inactive, and I know we need a place where it’s safe for us to be prickly, and I’ll make AH that place for as long as I can.